Aleks Lewicki
@aleksandralewicki.bsky.social
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Political sociologist @sussex.ac.uk, writing on #racialisation, political economy of race-making, east-west inequalities in Europe, #migration, political resistance: Reader in #Sociology & Director @sei-sussex.bsky.social
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OUT NOW: 'Vigilant Whiteness: Racism, Transphobia and the Mainstreaming of Far-Right Politics in Britain' - by @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social & Maddy Clark @identitiesjournal.bsky.social - a brief summary🧵(2-11) below: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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lsesociology.bsky.social
📣 Submit your paper to the @bjsociology.bsky.social 2026 Conference!

The BJS conference will showcase cutting-edge research across Sociology, providing a platform to discuss the most exciting developments in the field.

Submit your abstract by Monday 20 October 2025.

www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/br...
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drbenwhitham.bsky.social
After a horrific antisemitic atrocity that took two lives yesterday, the Met essentially commits to devoting more resources to arresting pensioners protesting genocide than protecting Jewish communities and "focusing on serious crimes"
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Screenshot from Guardian story: "Following the horrific and tragic events that have taken place in Manchester this morning, the details of which are still developing, the Met is stepping up reassurance and protective security operations across the capital with a particular focus on London’s Jewish and Muslim communities,” said the letter, which was signed in the name of the deputy assistant commissioner Ade Adelekan" Screenshot from Guardian story continues: “However, as you know, your previous large-scale events and other concurrent protests place a significant pressure on policing and draw officers away from the communities they serve to be in central London. This means less neighbourhood and response officers in their communities and less officers focusing on serious crimes"
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jannisgrimm.bsky.social
Astonishing drone footage released by @amnesty.de of today's All Eyes on Gaza protest in Berlin.
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badaczkinagranicy.bsky.social
We talked at the annual conference of Committee on Migration Research of Polish Academy of Science abt ongoing humanitarian crisis on Poland-Belarus border, especially after the suspension of right to asylum, introduced by the pro-european & liberal Civic Coalition. All quiet on the Eastern border.
aleksandralewicki.bsky.social
All sorts of ways to turn that scenario into an advantage
aleksandralewicki.bsky.social
But Lizzie, you need at least 8 just for the most basic barszcz - and by that point you haven’t even made chlodnik or smoothie yet …
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katherineschof8.bsky.social
I am genuinely baffled and distressed as to why the UK government is intent on destroying UK's genuinely world-leading universities, who bring £265 billion into the economy and support more than 250,000 jobs.

This tax will kill us.

www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
Student visas crackdown and new levies to cause ‘£1.8bn loss’ to UK economy
The Government has proposed a 6 per cent tax on international student tuition fees and a reduction in graduate visas
www.standard.co.uk
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sianberry.bsky.social
I have come to the conclusion the EHRC guidance on single sex spaces should not even come to Parliament. It is misleading and has caused distress for my trans constituents.

I urge @bphillipsonMP to reject it on grounds of practicality and human rights.

sianberry.org.uk/publications/l…
An image of Sian's letter to the Minister for Women and Equalities. 

You can read the full text of her letter at:

https://www.sianberry.org.uk/publications/letter-regarding-statutory-guidance-from-the-equality-human-rights-commission/
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aurelmondon.bsky.social
The issue is not whether 'Britain is far right' but why far-right politics have become so normalised

Rather than accepting this is a bottom-up, people-driven push, I argue that we must look at those who have the power to shape the agenda and public discourse

www.bigissue.com/news/politic...
Is Britain far right?
Do most people in Britain really sympathise with far-right views? As Reform UK rises in the polls, we asked the experts.
www.bigissue.com
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sumimadhok.bsky.social
“The alleged abuses by British forces range from murder, torture, expulsion and collective punishment which the submission says repressed the Arab Palestinian population amounting to war crimes and crimes against humanity”.
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calebw.bsky.social
I'm really appreciating the applied turn in philosophy of race over the past few years, toward examining concrete *institutional* effects of particular conceptions of race.

Here @malinowska.bsky.social showing off great glasses & talking about distortions in European health outcome research
Joanna Malinowska presenting on Webex, the slide header is "Classificatory Strategies in Europe"
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jannisgrimm.bsky.social
Given broad interest we gave our best to speed up the translation of our study of self-censorship and perceptions of academic freedom infringements in Germany since 7 October 2023!

An english version of our report and codebook are now available on our website: interact.fu-berlin.de/en/News/Grim...
New INTERACT study: German Academia after October 7
interact.fu-berlin.de
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robin-c.bsky.social
next week at FU:

Race, Racialisation, and Racism in the European Context

w/ @schlawinerkreis.bsky.social, @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social, Urs Lindner, Magali Bessone, Murad Idris, Lee Medovoi & many others

info and program:
tinyurl.com/4udeeae7
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saskiabonjour.bsky.social
Can't wait to read this:
aleksandralewicki.bsky.social
OUT NOW: 'Vigilant Whiteness: Racism, Transphobia and the Mainstreaming of Far-Right Politics in Britain' - by @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social & Maddy Clark @identitiesjournal.bsky.social - a brief summary🧵(2-11) below: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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christine-bg.bsky.social
Such an important paper!
aleksandralewicki.bsky.social
OUT NOW: 'Vigilant Whiteness: Racism, Transphobia and the Mainstreaming of Far-Right Politics in Britain' - by @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social & Maddy Clark @identitiesjournal.bsky.social - a brief summary🧵(2-11) below: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Its been great to share a panel on ‘East-West Inequalities & Gendered Labour Mobilities in Europe’ with Roxana Barbulescu (Leeds), Peter Birke (Göttingen), Anda Nicolae-Vladu (Bochum) & @probursula.bsky.social (Berlin) @britsoci.bsky.social #wesconf25 Thanks for the stimulating conversation!
Roxana Barbulescu, Peter Birke, Anda Nicolae Vladu, Aleks Lewicki & Ursula Probst after their conference panel
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Thanks Saskia, you made me blush. I am such a fan of you and your work so that’s a totally skewed self-perception 😅